Audacity Forum

and tomorrow I will begin again the search for some type of solution to my problem - this time with checkbook in hand. It's still true ... you get what you pay for. If you are still here, I suggest you get a simpler recording-only application, perhaps Total Recorder [/u] [/color] ($18 USD & up) rat...

Uhhhh ... thanks, but no thanks. As Gomer Pyle used to say, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!"

Thanks for your timely response. I went to ComputerGadgets'R'Us, acquired a USB interface thingie as you suggested and it made the problem worse. I then abandoned the laptop and went to my desktop system (which has both line-in and line out jacks), plugged into said jacks and the distortion/clipping...

I am trying to use Audacity (beta) to transfer music from vinyl to CD, by first "recording" it in my computer, then converting it to a CD-friendly format and burning it ... at least that was my plan. I can record the music just fine, but the quality of the playback (from the computer - I never even ...